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Top 35 Automotive Angel Investors in Middle East in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 35 angel investors that invest in Automotive startups based in Middle east. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from Middle east. We update this investor list every month.

Top 35 Automotive Angel Investors in Middle East in December 2024

Investor	Automotive Middle East investments
Zohar Zisapel	3
Eyal Ofer	3
Uri Levine	3
Bedii Can Yucaoglu	2
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen	2
Emre Acikel	2
Marius Nacht	1
Afzal Modak	1
Melih Odemis	1
Gonzalo Martinez de Azagra	1
Ahu Serter	1
Omer Erkmen	1
Rami Lipman	1
Hakan Bas	1
Erdem Yurdanur	1
Anonymous	1
Wassim Matar	1
Ali Cebi	1
Nevzat Aydın	1
Yigal Jacoby	1
Peter Mertens	1
Igor Ryabenkiy	1
Fernando Rivera	1
Can Yucaoglu	1
Oskar Hartmann	1
Kaan Karamanci	1
Firat Isbecer	1
Ynon Kreiz	1
Michael van Swaaij	1
Deniz Devrim Cengiz	1
Emrullah Eruslu	1
Serkan Borancılı	1
Yasser Al-Ghamdi	1
Melih Murat Yucaoglu	1
Christer Andersson	1

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Zohar Zisapel

Investment focus

Cyber Security, Information Technology, Security
Series A, Seed, Series B
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cylus — Cylus, the global leader in rail cybersecurity, helps rail, freight and metro companies avoid service disruption and safety incidents by detecting cyber-attacks in their signaling and control networks, wayside and onboard, before harm happens.
Nucleix — OUR TESTS AIM TO DETECT CANCER EARLIER - WHEN TREATMENT CAN BE MOST EFFECTIVE FOR PATIENTS OUR PRODUCTS
Hailo — Hailo have developed the best performing AI processors for edge devices. Our AI accelerator chips are used for Smart City & Homes, machine learning, automotive AI, retail AI and smart factory Industry 4.0 solutions.

Eyal Ofer (born 1950) is Chairman of Ofer Global, leading the group’s private portfolio of international businesses in shipping, real estate, energy, technology, banking and investments. In 2017, Eyal launched O.G. Venture Partners, a single LP Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-growth-stage technology start-ups, demonstrating hislong-standing support for tech entrepreneurs.In 2022, O.G. Venture Partners announced Fund II of $400M following the successful $100m Fund I, later expanded to $150m. Fund I has invested in 21 companies since its 2017 launch, with 5 exits already. The Fund I portfolio includes: LendBuzz, WSC Sports, BlueVine, Bringg, Paxos, Connecteam, Elementor, Coralogix, Candivore and SuperPlay. Eyal Ofer (born 1950) is Chairman of Ofer Global, leading the group’s private portfolio of international businesses in shipping, real estate, energy, technology, banking and investments. In 2017, Eyal launched O.G. Venture Partners, a single LP Venture Capital fund focused on investing in early-growth-stage technology start-ups, demonstrating his long-standing support for tech entrepreneurs. In 2022, O.G. Venture Partners announced Fund II of $400M following the successful $100m Fund I, later expanded to $150m. Fund I has invested in 21 companies since its 2017 launch, with 5 exits already. The Fund I portfolio includes: LendBuzz, WSC Sports, BlueVine, Bringg, Paxos, Connecteam, Elementor, Coralogix, Candivore and SuperPlay.

Investment focus

Financial Services, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Home365 — Home365, Is a Property Management Company. Our Goal Is Making Renting Out More Profitable, Predictable And Hassle Free. Click Here For More Information.
Connecteam — Communicate, operate and train your non-desk employees with Connecteam's all-in-one employee app. Easy to use, customizable and affordable like no other!
Lightbits Labs — Discover Lightbits disaggregated software-defined storage for IO-intensive workloads in OpenStack, Kubernetes, and VMware environments.

Uri Levine - Co-Founder & Chairman @ Refundit

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Travel
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Israel

Portfolio highlights

Engie — Buy Twitch Followers and Buy Twitch Viewers from EngieApp to grow an organic following. Our Twitch followers, viewers are immensely real and authentic. Try Now!
SeeTree — SeeTree offers you complete transparency into the health and production of each of your trees by leveraging the most powerful innovations available.
WeSki — Visit WeSki, compare endless ski holiday combinations, find the best ski deals and build your perfect ski package holiday, in just few clicks.

Bedii Can Yucaoglu - Advisor @ Hesapkurdu

Investment focus

Marketplace, Mobile, Big Data
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Tapu.com — Tapu.com has built the first managed real estate marketplace in Turkey and started selling from its first week of launch in 2015. Tapu.com is the first online real estate auction platform for the Turkish market, bringing many sellers like financial institutions, companies and individuals together with qualified buyers. Tapu.com has launched aneasy-to use platform that leverages the competitive bidding process on verified properties with a mission to make transactions easier and more transparent. Tapu.com has completed 4 major investment rounds from Earlybird Venture Capital and prominent Turkish angel investors.
Garaj Sepeti — Garaj Sepeti leads the digital transformation of used car market in Turkey, 5th biggest used car market on the planet with more than 8m transactions per year. Our B2B and B2C marketplaces brings trust and convenience to car dealers and individuals while buying and selling cars.
Vivense Home & Living — Vivense is a Turkish online furniture store that connects customers with furniture manufacturers. It offers a wide variety of furniture items such as sofas, chairs, tables, beds, dining tables, and more. Vivense allows clients to order their preferred furniture items online, and offers free delivery for certain products.

Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a Co-Founder & serves as a Partner at 2xN. Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen was General Partner at Balderton Capital in London from 2015-2021 through four funds. He joined after spending a decade in Silicon Valley where he was with Uber and Dropbox.Since 2012 his venture track record includes two IPOs (Uber, Dropbox) and 11acquisitions.Lars joined Balderton from Uber which he joined when the company was operating in less than 20 cities. His role as Vice-President resulted in strategic alliances. Lars joined Uber from Dropbox as one of the company’s first 25 employees. As Head of Mobile, his growth deals with Samsung and other mobile OEMs helped Dropbox reach its first 100 million users. Prior to that Lars held positions at Voicesignal (acq. Nuance), Skyhook Wireless (acq. TruePosition), Ness Technologies (acq. Opentable), 3Jam (acq. Skype) and T9 Tegic (acq. AOL). More than a billion people have used the software and services distributed as a result of mobile growth partnerships led by Lars.His venture investments include Voi (Raine), Labster (A16Z), Hiya (Ericsson), Cambridge Quantum Computing (HON), Hopin (A16Z), Opensea (A16Z), Yassir (YC), Beacon (Eric Schmidt), The org (Sequoia), Octant (A16Z), Zycada (Khosla), Monarch Money (Accel) and Kukua (Tencent), Dubsmash (acq. Reddit), Tempow (acq. Google), Rahko (acq. Odyssey Therapeutics), Pocket (acq. Mozilla), Blue Bottle (acq. Nestle), Marble (acq. Caterpillar).Lars, who is Danish-Portuguese, grew up across Africa and served with the Royal Danish Guards. He holds a MBA from London Business School, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees, an MSc from Oxford University Keble College and a BSc from King’s College, London. He lives in London with his wife and three children.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products.  e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
Quantrol Ox — Building Machine Learning Based Software for Quantum Control with a goal to maximise quantum computer uptime.

Angel Investor. Investing in Turkey (member of Sharks & Partners) & Switzerland (member of Business Angels Switzerland).

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.
YapıRadar.com — YapıRadar.com is an online market place created for the exchange of goods and services between suppliers and contractors. It includes information on Project Authority, Stage Information of Construction, Project and Current Site Images, Location, Construction Area. YapıRadar.com was founded in 2018 and is based in Istanbul.
Mizanplus Kitchens — Mizanplus Kitchens provides delivery service multi-brand dark store network.

Marius Nacht, one of Check Point’s founders, has served as Chairman of our board of directors since 2015. Nacht has also served as one of our directors since we were incorporated in 1993. From 1999 through 2005, Nacht held Senior Vice President roles at Check Point. Nacht earned a B.S. (cum laude) in Physics and Mathematics from the HebrewUniversity of Jerusalem in 1983, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Communication Systems from Tel Aviv University in 1987.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Health Care
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Israel, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

CPTx — At CPTx, we develop new treatment paradigms across outsized medical challenges, with an initial focus on infectious diseases. The flexibility and precision of CPTx's platform supports multivalent drug development, which is crucial for addressing complex disease states involving multiple binding sites, such as viruses, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.
Wisdo Health — Our award-winning social health platform utilizes SDOH assessments and pro-social measures to increase quality of life and decrease medical spending.
WaveBL — WAVE BL lets you digitally issue, transfer, sign, endorse and surrender trade documents while cutting costs and eliminating fraud.

Afzal Modak is the Director at VitalProbe Inc. Afzal Modak attended Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Payments
Seed, Angel
India, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

branchX — branchX is a digital bank that focuses on accelerating financial inclusion for migrants. branchX was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Maharashtra, India.
Hydra Electric™ — Hydra Motors is a UAE automobile manufacturing start-up headquartered in Dubai, specializing in the plotting and modelling of electric vehicles. The company is also involved with vehicular design firm Hydra Design Labs, although they are not actually related.
Logo Infosoft — Logo Infosoft provides digitized and simplified solutions for MSMEs and Enterprises in the accounting, invoicing, and secondary sales (supply chain) space, while CaptainBiz helps MSMEs manage inventory, get invoicing organized and paid on time. J-Platform DMS is a comprehensive distribution management system for Super Stockists, Distributors, andDealers of various sizes and scales, offering features such as pay cycle, claim, inventory management, and more

Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region. Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey. Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Deplike — Everyone can make music!
UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.
HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!

Investor/global strategist with a deep business/financial training and the ability to understand technology at the engineering level.Related investments:* Replay Technologies* Celeno* AudioBurst* Corephotonics* Rounds* ScyllaDB* EarlySense* Cortica* Aveni* Pitango VI, VII, VC fund (Israel) * Triventures III*StoreDot (Israel) '12 * NextIO: Datacenter IO Virtualization company (US), '12* Undisclosed Flash based storage company (US) '12* Yume, Digital Ad Network, (US,Operational DD) '11Specialties: Areas of investment focus: 1) Mobile: Comp. Vision, Imaging, Wireless Comms 2) Cloud : IAAS, PAAS, Ent. Storage, Servers, Virtualization, Big data processing/management3) Semicon: Equipment/Process Technology/MetrologyOther: Media, Digital Advertising, Online Gaming/GamblingGeographic Coverage:1) Israel2) Europe3) USSManaged Portfolio:Replay TechnologiesGirafficStoreDot (Board Member)Pitango VI LP representativePurestorage (past)FusionIO (past)PrimeSense (Past)EXPERIENCEPrincipalSamsung VenturesDecember 2011 – Present (1 year 3 months)San Francisco Bay AreaDeal sourcing, due diligence, term sheet negotiation and execution, portfolio management and exitManager - Global StrategistSamsung ElectronicsAugust 2010 – December 2011 (1 year 5 months)Founded in 1997 by Group Chairman Kun-Hee Lee the Global Strategy group is an internal strategy consulting team created to help Samsung face its globalization challenges.Project Lead and UC Berkeley School Recruiting Champion:http://gsg.samsung.com/popup/popup_Berkeley.asp(Open)1 honor or awardSenior ConsultantPwC ConsultingJuly 2005 – August 2008 (3 years 2 months)Promoted from Analyst to Senior Consultant within 7 months. Strategic plans, process re-engineering, proforma modeling and investment appraisal for multiple industries.Systems Design EngineerAEA Technology (Former Atomic Energy Authority)July 2003 – July 2005 (2 years 1 month)London, United KingdomEMI studies (C++, Matlab). High Voltage Power Supply desig. Relevant projects: West Coast Route Modernization, CTRL, etc.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Video
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bananaz — bananaz is an advanced AI-powered design management tool that enables modern engineering teams to expedite collaboration, design change tracking, and validation in real time.
StoreDot — The extreme-fast charging battery pioneers StoreDot is a battery developer and materials innovation leader, developing ground-breaking battery technologies based on the design and synthesis of both organic and inorganic compounds. Replacing known materials and technologies with enhanced electro-chemical properties, StoreDot's proprietarycompounds, combined with nano-materials, are optimized for Extreme Fast Charging - XFC of electric vehicles. Designed to replace known technologies by means of enhanced physical, chemical, electrical and optical properties, StoreDot’s technology, inspired by nature, can be optimized for multiple industries, including fast-charging batteries for mobile devices and electric vehicles. With a strong technological team of noted scientists and device engineering experts, StoreDot is positioned to reinvent the world of materials and devices as they know it.
Alison AI — Stop wasting time and money on A/B testing. Analyze data, create impactful creatives, and optimize for outstanding results.

Ahu Serter is the Founder and President of Fark Labs. She previously worked at FARHYM Vehicle Interiors as a Head of Management Committee, Board Member. Ahu Serter attended Pace University.

Investment focus

Software, Baby, Information Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, Greece, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Harcy — Harcy is an R&D organization that uses waste to create new types of building materials to strengthen the circular economy. First, it developed Harcy Polyester Wool, a building thermal insulation material made from textile waste. With its high performance and ease of application, Harcy Polyester Wool is a contender to replace the previousinsulation materials while recycling two kilograms of textile waste per square meter into the economy.
Ampherr — Ampherr provides cutting-edge, intelligent energy storage solutions based on different chemical variations of lithium-ion cells, such as NMC, LTO, and LFP, for all types of electrical cars and stationary applications. Manufacturer of battery packs, focus on delivering application-specific products for practically all use cases while combiningquality, cutting-edge engineering, and agile service.
Euronova — Euronova develops advanced raw materials based on the ideas of sustainability, recycling, and circular economy.

Omer Erkmen is the co-founder at Yeni Nesil Kafası. Omer Erkmen attended UC Santa Barbara.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Salvor — These are the ideas and the philosophy behind Salvor.io; why it exists, how it will adapt to the newer ways of creation by forming a bridge between ideas and effort. Salvor is a combination of fresh understanding of contemporary digital arts and assets, adaptive of the new free economy, and a sustainable approach to new ways of doing creativebusiness taking advantage of the collective internet culture. We have the dreams, we have the talent and we have the will.
WeFarm — WeFarm maintains vacant fields for you and converts them into productive farms.
Mindsite — Mindsite provides e-commerce analytics. Easily monitor key metrics from price to visibility in real time. Increase your online sales.

Rami Lipman is an angel investor.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Matics Manufacturing Analytics Ltd. — Matics real-time manufacturing analytics provides a digital toolbox for factories' production floor management and dramatically increases the production efficiency.
Lawgeex — LawGeex automates legal work, redlining and negotiating contracts better, faster and cheaper than lawyers.
NoTraffic — NoTraffic has developed the first AI-powered traffic signal platform that connects road...

Hakan Bas - Founder & CEO @ Ace Games

Investment focus

Marketplace, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Angel
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
Garajyeri — garajyeri offers an online platform that enables its users to find, compare, and obtain car rental services. The services are categorized as economy, family, premium, comfort, and campaigns.garajyeri enables its customers to connect with car owners to obtain information and discounts.garajyeri was founded by Arda Askin in January 2015. And itis based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Lotus Flow — Lotus Yoga is an online yoga, meditation, fitness, and mindfulness platform that offers both audio and video content in various languages.

Erdem Yurdanur - Founder & Director @ Admost

Investment focus

Mobile, Advertising, Marketplace
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Turkey, United States, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Ulak — [ENG] ULAK is a mobile app, that helps you find nearby couriers and place a custom order. With ULAK, the nearest courier to your location is directed to you, serves with the shipment you choose, app displays the instant location information until your shipment is delivered, shares delivery details with you, securely collects your payment from yourcredit card and completes the transaction. If you wish, you can get service with cash payment as well...[TUR] ULAK akıllı telefonlar üzerinde çalışan, motorlu kuryeye ihtiyacı olanlarla, güvenilir motorlu kuryeleri buluşturan bir mobil uygulamadır. ULAK ile size en yakın kuryeyi çağırarak gönderinizi yapabilir veya özel sipariş verebilirsiniz. ULAK ile bulunduğunuz konuma en yakın kurye size yönlendirilir, seçeceğiniz gönderi şekli ile hizmet verir, gönderiniz teslim edilene kadar anlık konum bilgisini gösterir, teslimat detaylarını size iletir, ödemenizi güvenli bir şekilde kredi kartınızdan tahsil eder, işlemi tamamlar. Dilerseniz nakit ödeme seçeneği ile hizmet alabilirsiniz.
Charmy — Charmy is a music social media site available online. Users can create playlists, share photos, and search for songs they prefer.
Tiramisu — TIRAMISU MOBILE GAME STUDIO

Anonymous

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, Egypt, India

Portfolio highlights

Aethir — Aethir is an Egyptian company that manufactures lighting equipment for professionals and amateurs in film making & Broadcasting industry.
ExaCare — ExaCare transforms post-acute and senior care with AI-driven CRM solutions. Streamline admissions, gain actionable insights, and improve patient outcomes.
ellipse — Ellipse is a technology company specializing in EMV-integrated card security code solutions to reduce CNP fraud and false declines. It offers a battery-free display card technology that allows card manufacturers to incorporate display cards into their products with existing equipment.

Wassim Matar is a Managing Partner at Verve Ventures VC.

Investment focus

FinTech, InsurTech, Insurance
Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Volt Lines — Launched in April of 2018, Volt Lines is a subscription-based transportation network currently serving corporate customers in Istanbul, Turkey. A Volt Lines account gives its user access to unlimited rides on the ever-growing Volt Lines network of micro-transit.
Waffle Labs — Waffle Labs is a technology company that reinvents insurance and improves value for consumers. Founded in 2018 by Michael Li, Quentin Coolen, and Sam Barnsley, Waffle Labs is headquartered in New York.

Ali Çebi

Investment focus

Transportation, Mobile, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Volt — Volt is an on-demand inner-city peer-to-peer ridesharing app that connects car owners with passengers going in the same direction. Unlike traditional car hailing apps which dispatch cars to the passenger’s location, Volt connects passengers with cars already driving in traffic and heading to the same destination. Carowners earn back theirdrivingexpenses (~200€/mo - without making profit), while passengers enjoy rides that are 70% cheaper than taxi.
Insumo — Insumo is a personalized productivity & habit building assistant that works with other productivity tools.
Volt Lines — Launched in April of 2018, Volt Lines is a subscription-based transportation network currently serving corporate customers in Istanbul, Turkey. A Volt Lines account gives its user access to unlimited rides on the ever-growing Volt Lines network of micro-transit.

Nevzat Aydın is the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, the first and biggest online food delivery portal in Turkey.Born in 1976 in İstanbul, Nevzat Aydın completed his secondary education at the Bursa Anatolian High School. Following his graduation from Boğaziçi University Department of Computer Engineering, he went to the United States where he receivedhis MBA at the University of San Francisco in Silicon Valley.During his stay in the United States, Aydın followed the latest developments on e-trade before he returned to Turkey in 2000 to launch his project, Yemeksepeti.com. Serving as the CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, Nevzat Aydın introduced a brand new dimension to e-trade in Turkey.In 2007, Yemeksepeti.com was selected the “Endeavor Entreprenur” by Endeavor Turkey. Aydin was also selected the “Most Successful Turkish Young Entrepreneur” by the CNBC-e Business magazine in 2010 for his successful work since the foundation of Yemeksepeti.com.As the founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti.com, which celebrated its 11th anniversary in 2012, he won the first prize in 2011 in the “Male Entrepreneur of the Year” category at the “Businesspeople of the Year” survey conducted by the Ekonomist magazine among nearly 3,000 business people.Aydin is a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Supreme Board of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey, and a founding member of Galata Business Angels.Aydın was one of the 150 entrepreneurs invited from all over the world to the Entrepreneurship Summit held by US President Barack Obama on April 26-27, 2010.He was also among the speakers at the DLD (Digital-Life-Design) Conference, which is deemed as one of the world's most prestigious conferences with its content on innovation and developments in the digital world. He is also an editorial advisor of GQ Turkey, one of the 5 “dragons” of the Dragons’ Den Turkey show, and a Board Member of Trabzonspor sports club.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Turkey, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Getmobil — Getmobill offers services in refurbished devices and their sale and resale.
Apollo IoT — One of Turkey's digital energy platform initiatives is Apollo IoT. This platform is intended for invoice control, optimization, and forecasting. It allows you to monitor historical and current consumption data and confirm the correctness of your electricity bill, all without the need for device or hardware installation. Apollo assists inlowering the cost of electricity usage by providing real-time verification, detecting anomalous consumption and reactive fines in real-time, and informing you with enhanced warnings. It makes energy monitoring of corporate employees more realistic, saves money by boosting energy efficiency, and protects the environment thanks to its user-friendly web-based interface and excellent graphics.
Shark Guitar — Shark Guitar sells innovative electric guitars.

Yigal Yacoby is an angel investor.Yigal Jacoby co-founded Allot Communications in 1996 and served as both the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors until 2006, when he retired as CEO.Jacoby continued as Chariman of the Board until November 2008.In 1992, Jacoby founded Armon Networking, a manufacturer ofRMON-based network management solutions, which was sold to Bay Networks in 1996. Following this acquisition, Jacoby continued on as General Manager of Bay Network’s Network Management Division from 1996-1997.Prior to this, he held a variety of engineering and marketing management positions at Tekelec, a manufacturer of telecommunication monitoring and diagnostic equipment. Throughout his career, Jacoby has founded several start-ups in the communications field, serving on their board of directors and taking an active role in guiding the companies.Jacoby has a B.A. cum laude in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Southern California.

Investment focus

Beauty, Mobile, Analytics
Seed
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

KitLocate — Power you app with location smarts! KitLocate is a mobile location cloud app platform for iOS and android. KitLocate makes mobile apps location aware. Offering developers and brands effective user engagement and services based on their users real-time location; exactly at the right place and time they need it. The KitLocate locationplatform combines the power of always-on, battery efficient location tracking SDK for your app, big data smarts and robust messaging capabilities. Together, your mobile app users have your brand at their side as they commute, work, shop and dine – enabling you to send relevant offers, at the exact time and place, they need your advice and are ready act on it. Developers love their easy to implement SDK that is super battery efficient (consuming less than 1% / hr) and provides error free geo data and simple to deploy geo location tools like geo-fencing… Marketers loves their game changing Consumer Location Intelligence platform that drives sales and brand loyalty through location based insights.
DriveU.auto — Reliable, low-latency connectivity for teleoperation: video, audio, and data. Deploy robot & autonomous vehicle fleets with confidence using.
Nimble Beauty — Nimble develops a machine that offers an automatic manicure for nails based on 3D image processing technologies. The company was founded in 2016 by Avichay Mor-Yosef and Omri Moran and is based in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Peter Mertens

Investment focus

Software, Automotive, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Certivity — Certivity offers software to model digital regulatory twins of their products. This will ensure that current regulatory requirements are integrated in the right place in the engineering process. Product compliance will be smarter, safer, more transparent, more efficient, and significantly cheaper.
DeepDrive — We are DeepDrive. We are powered by fusion. Absolute professionalism mixed up with our deeply rooted urge to discover. Deep expertise meets revolutionary innovations.
Moonblock — Moonblock is a tool to navigate Web3 with the right insights with a Web3 Brand Intelligence platform.

Igor Ryabenkiy is the Managing Partner at AltaIR Capital. Igor is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with over twenty years of successful executive and investment experience including Internet startups and IT companies. He has funded, developed, and exited a significant number of investment projects worldwide.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Sceenic — Sceenic offers solutions to power interactive viewing experiences. Through its "Watch Together" technology, media companies create watch together experiences for their audiences, offering friends and family a deeper, more engaging and interactive group viewing experience.
Feel — We make the cleanest, potent supplements in the world. Delivered straight to your door. Designed by nutritionists for energy, sleep, stress and hair, skin & nails.
Viridix — Viridix is a precision irrigation decision support system powered by Root Sense soil moisture sensor that save water, increase yield and raise profits.

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor and VC. Ex-CTO for ETF.com. Interest in LatAm startups and Fintech.

Investment focus

Apps, Recruiting, Vending and Concessions
Seed, Angel
United States, Brazil, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Shippify — Shippify is an innovative logistics service that connects businesses with a diverse network of drivers & 3PLs to provide same day delivery . Shippify is backed by strategic leading venture capital and angel investors. Currently available in Brasil, Mexico, Chile and Ecuador. The company was founded in 2014.
Pimes — Mission-Driven, For-Profit, Online Lender to Small Businesses in Developing MarketsPimes is focused on accelerating the success of profitable small businesses led by motivated, capable and ethical entrepreneurs in select developing markets by providing access to innovative and comprehensive debt financing. At the same time, we aim to offer ourinvestors market returns and access to a new asset class.Starting in Colombia, we will offer a hand up to growing companies who need capital to maximize their impact, create employment and open pathways for upward mobility.Learning, and adapting, from recent experiences in developed markets, we are reinventing small business lending in developing markets.Our target customer has 3 to 50 employees and requires a loan of $5,000 to $100,000. This is typically too large for the microfinance model, but too small for traditional banking approaches to be profitable.We will measure our social impact in terms of absolute employment creation, loans to women-owned and impact-focused enterprises, and loans to rural and underserved regions.
VisIC Technologies — VisIC Technologies Ltd. is a GaN power semiconductor device leader in the fast-developing markets of Automotive, Data Centers and Industrial.

Can Yucaoglu

Investment focus

Mobile, Big Data, Automotive
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Garaj Sepeti — Garaj Sepeti leads the digital transformation of used car market in Turkey, 5th biggest used car market on the planet with more than 8m transactions per year. Our B2B and B2C marketplaces brings trust and convenience to car dealers and individuals while buying and selling cars.

Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Russian Federation, India

Portfolio highlights

Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
June Homes — June Homes is a network of fully furnished bedrooms in prime spots available on flexible month-to-month terms in major American cities.

Kaan Karamanci is Co-founder at Gram Games.

Investment focus

Mobile, Marketing, Automotive
Seed, Angel, Series B
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Garajyeri — garajyeri offers an online platform that enables its users to find, compare, and obtain car rental services. The services are categorized as economy, family, premium, comfort, and campaigns.garajyeri enables its customers to connect with car owners to obtain information and discounts.garajyeri was founded by Arda Askin in January 2015. And itis based in Istanbul, Turkey.
incir.com — Incir is a Turkish internet marketing tech infrastructure provider that develops e-commerce systems and related services such as domain name registration, operations support, stock payment infrastructure, free marketing training, virtual POS, and more. Incir was founded in July 2012.
Gram Games — Gram Games is a mobile game development studio, committed to delivering high quality mobile games that create real bonds through play. Founded in 2012 with headquarters in Istanbul, Turkey, Gram Games has built a team of industry professionals focused on creating engaging games for mobile platforms. Due to the development and growth of Gram Games,a London office was opened in 2017.

Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and a seed investor. His first venture Pozitron, a mobile software company focusing on digital banking, commerce and mobile payments, became one of the fastest growing enterprise software companies in Europe with clients across the globe. After multi years of growth and a successful international expansion, Pozitronwas acquired by London-based fin-tech star Monitise plc in 2014.After the acquisition, he joined Monitise and oversaw the company’s regional operations as the MEA Managing Director. Monitise MEA quickly became one of the most profitable business units of Monitise Group. In 2017, Monitise Group was fully acquired by the US-based, Fiserv Inc, one of the world's largest fin-tech companies with more than 50,000 employees.Shortly after the acquisition, he left Fiserv and founded his newest venture, Commencis. Commencis helps leading brands grow and scale in digital, powered by it’s Big Data, Analytics and Cloud products.In September 2019, Commencis expanded to Berlin, Germany by announcing finbyte, a joint-venture in fintech solutions. Besides Commencis, he is also an active seed investor. Member of Galata Business Angels, Turkey’s first angel investor group.After graduating from Robert College in Istanbul, Firat received his Bachelor’s Degree from Galatasaray University, and his Master’s Degree from a joint programme by Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.

Investment focus

Internet, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Turkey, United States

Portfolio highlights

Crait.it — Empowering your eComm and marketing visuals with power of AI creativity and actionable data insight.
Paket Mutfak — On-demand food delivery management
Podbee Media — Podbee Media primarily engages in the production of Podcasts.

Ynon Kreiz joined Maker’s board as Chairman in May 2012 and was appointed Executive Chairman/CEO in May 2013. Under Ynon’s leadership, in May 2014 Maker merged with The Walt Disney Company.Before joining Maker, Ynon was Chairman and CEO of Endemol Group, the world's largest independent television production company, with majorinternational programming franchises including Big Brother and Deal or No Deal. Under his management, Endemol produced more than 10,000 hours of programming per year for over 300 broadcasters worldwide and became one of the world’s largest independent distributors of English speaking programming. During his tenure, Endemol also established its position as the leading independent producer for both network and cable in the U.S. and diversified into scripted programming. Prior to Endemol, Ynon was a General Partner at Balderton Capital (formerly Benchmark Capital Europe). Prior to that, Ynon co-founded Fox Kids Europe N.V. where he was Chairman and CEO. Under his leadership, Fox Kids Europe became one of the fastest growing pay-TV channels in Europe and the Middle East, broadcasting in 56 countries in 17 languages. Fox Kids Europe was listed on the Euronext Stock Exchange in Amsterdam in 1999 and the majority shareholding was sold to the Walt Disney Company in 2001. Ynon is a graduate of the Tel Aviv University and holds a B.A. in Economics and Management as well an M.B.A. from UCLA's Anderson School of Management.

Investment focus

Music, Video, Security
Series C, Series A
Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cortica — Cortica is an Israeli company founded in 2007 with leading AI technology for visual perception. Its unique self-learning technology, backed by more than 200 patents, allows Cortica to develop multiple products that can read and understand images on a human level–thereby significantly exceeding the capabilities of the major tech companies.Cortica is the first AI company capable of human-level image understanding. Even the most advanced technology has never been able to understand the visual world as well as people do - until now. By leveraging proprietary brain research to create unsupervised AI, Cortica has developed the most effective computer vision system. This technology, based upon the mammal cortex is utilized to build products impacting many industries. The company’s mission is to lead the emerging AI market with a strong focus on computer vision and establish its "universal visual index of the world" as the global standard–enabling machines to read and understand images. Cortica's vision is to embed its capabilities in all next-generation platforms where understanding images is a critical task. This includes autonomous vehicles, smart city applications, security cameras, drones, media, robotics, and medical image analysis. Cortica's headquarters and R&D center are based in Israel employing over 80 leading AI researchers and veterans of elite Israeli military intelligence units.
Maker Studios — DISNEY IS WHERE TECHNOLOGY, creativity AND INNOVATION COLLIDE Learn More make your move with make your move with A foundational study to understand the intersection of family dynamics and streaming. LEARN MORE A program designed to educate and empower underrepresented-owned small businesses.Put the power of Disney to work for you! Read More IN THE NEWS

Michael van Swaaij is an Advisor, and ex-Chairman Skype and attributed with the launch of eBay & AOL in Europe

Investment focus

SaaS, Travel, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, Russian Federation, Israel

Portfolio highlights

HipClub — Our first project was conceived HipWay.ru in April 2009, when we, its creators, not for the first time confronted with the problem of organizing your own holiday, we decided to create a project that will be useful for those looking for a fun and unconventional holiday. And thus, in contrast to the large number of already existing at the time oftravel social networks, forums and so on, we will set a goal that will be exactly hipway.ru shop travel, with the possibility of booking and payment online. A year later, in April 2010, appeared hipway.ru - the first project that brings together all the most interesting and unusual travel in one convenient directory, with the possibility of booking and payment online.Immediately after starting hipway.ru ranked sites day rambler.ru, it is absolutely without our knowledge - the unprecedented influx of visitors we have learned from that page hipway.ru opened a few seconds and broke off from the phone calls. Project immediately had to switch to a new server and organizers inspire and start looking for investors. Up to this point the project was funded entirely by private funds.In parallel with the search for an investor we planned to start a second project - hipclub - private club offers a great vacation c exclusive discounts. We gave the project to the development of our IT-team and continued to search for funding.In mid-2010 we were lucky - we got a great project investors - Javier Pérez-Tenessa, founder of eDreams, Michael van Swaaij, former CEO Skype and eBay top manager and several other equally wonderful "business angels". These people are now helping us not only financially, but also valuable advice.In October 2010, we launched hipclub, who became the first Internet cafe, specializing in tourism and leisure. In a short time hipclub not only got wide coverage on the Internet , but also got great reviews from its customers that we are particularly pleased, as it was initially the main task of both projects is to create a travel company with the best customer service.
Scramble — Investing made easy with Scramble - P2P lending platform offering secured loans to vetted European brands. Start your investment journey effortlessly, ensuring a smooth and secure path to build your investment portfolio.
Ovo Automotive — OVO Automotive is providing Cloud based App Delivery Platform for Connected Cars, driving open innovation for in-vehicle interactions, experiences and services.Auto makers, Google and Apple are locked in a battle to control the last unconquered screen - the in-vehicle dashboard - for direct interaction with captive audience and monetizing newconnected vehicle services. OVO Automotive provides a novel platform for delivery of apps to the in-vehicle screen, which enables customer interaction independent of automakers, Apple and Google. Our platform enables fleet owners, car dealers, smart mobility service players and connected car service providers to interact with their customers directly on the go, thus improving customer experience and creating new revenue streams. Our automotive grade cloud platform enables the delivery of any connected car app directly to any in-vehicle interactive touchscreen dashboard in a secure and transparent way, providing drivers and passengers a rich connected vehicle experience.

Deniz Devrim Cengiz

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Apps
Seed, Series A
Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

EasyCep — EasyCep, marketplace for refurbished electronics devices was founded in 2018 by Mehmet Akif Özdemir and İsmail Dinçer. Easycep makes it easier for consumers to sell their used electronic devices online. Also, it makes easier for consumers to find and buy professionally refurbished smartphones, tablets, computers and other some electronic devices aswell as 12 month warranty and at up to 70% of their original prices. With the prolongation of electronic products, EasyCep refurbishes them and offers them with a 12-month warranty.
Passion Punch — Passion Punch develops mobile games boosted by notable art and effective story that will touch players' daily lives.
Hiwell — Hiwell app is an online psychological counseling app that helps people without leaving their homes.

Emrullah Eruslu, CEO - Eryap Grup.

Investment focus

SaaS, Automotive, E-Commerce
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Servislet — Servislet is SAAS and marketplace provider for manufacturers, service providers and sell-off locations in the automotive industry. Servislet digitalizes offline locations and create micro, brand specific marketplaces.

Serkan Borançılı is the founding partner of GittiGidiyor, Turkey's leading consumer-to-consumer marketplace, which was acquired by eBay in 2011 for $220 million dollars. Born in 1971 in Ankara, Borançılı graduated from Istanbul Technical University with a degree in Architecture. After working as a freelance architect, he founded ARKInformation Technologies with Burak Divanlıoğlu in 1999. Up to 2004 GittiGidiyor was administered by ARK. Borançılı is also the co-founder of UzmanTV, a video website specializing in curated content by experts, and Istanbul.net, Turkey's largest online dating platform. Borançılı is also the first investor in BiTaksi, Turkey's leading taxi-hailing app. Since, he has also invested in Modacruz, a marketplace for secondhand luxury fashion.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Shoes
Series A, Angel, Series B
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

BiTaksi — BiTaksi is a mobile application that enables its users to book taxis. It enables its users to locate a taxi through its online map and provides traffic data and turn-by-turn directions for drivers. BiTaksi is available for iOS and Android operating systems.
Modacruz — Modacruz is a mobile social marketplace, serving more than 1 million women in Turkey, enabling women to buy and sell pre-owned brand name fashion items. Users can sign up to the platform to either find and purchase products or to sell their own. Modacruz was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in Istanbul
denebunu.com — Founded in 2016, Denebunu is a revolutionary data-driven digital marketing platform with a community of +1,5M members that connects brands with their consumers via technology, sampling and consumer insights. We redefined the way consumers shop for FMCG & Cosmetics products by a monthly delivery of personalised samples. We partner with thebest brands in the industry such as Unilever, P&G, L’Oréal, Henkel, Estee Lauder, Nestlé etc. , and use a proprietary algorithm to meet right products w/ right consumers , based on their preferences and profiles on denebunu.com

Yasser Al-Ghamdi

Investment focus

FinTech, Automotive
Angel, Pre-Seed
Saudi Arabia

Portfolio highlights

Nqoodlet — NQOODLET is an electronic platform targeting SMEs to manage their expenses, purchases through the credit cards given to the employees.
Garage — Garage provides on-demand car maintenance services, enabling customers to book these services through its mobile app and receive them at their doorstep.

Melih Murat Yucaoglu

Investment focus

Mobile, Big Data, Automotive
Seed
Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Garaj Sepeti — Garaj Sepeti leads the digital transformation of used car market in Turkey, 5th biggest used car market on the planet with more than 8m transactions per year. Our B2B and B2C marketplaces brings trust and convenience to car dealers and individuals while buying and selling cars.

Christer K. Andersson is an investor in early stage angel and venture rounds. Christer's main focus is in software tech start-ups that have a certain level of disruption in their idea. The current portfolio includes start-ups based in USA, Sweden, India , Israel, and Germany and cover technologies in Crypto / BlockChain, ArtificialIntelligence, BioTech, Enterprise SaaS, MusicTech, Mobility, and Futureofwork.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Sweden, India

Portfolio highlights

Minicircle — Minicircle develops a human genetic enhancement platform to facilitate life extension capabilities. Its platform uses expressive DNA mini circles to add genes to the human body without altering its pre-existing genome that lets healthcare practitioners to relieve suffering and enrich the condition through means of developing and delivering safe,accessible gene therapy.The company was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
Karbon — Karbon Card is a financial platform for Indian entrepreneurs.
Renaissance Fusion — Renaissance Fusion is a high-temperature superconductor and stellarator company.

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